This year is on track to be the last year Michoacán will be the only Mexican state supplying the U.S. with avocados for the Super Bowl. APEAM, the only cooperative partner for exporting avocados into the United States, will now work closely with Jalisco to deliver even more avocados to the U.S.
Most days, the road from Mexico City to this gritty suburb isn’t much to look at, but at Christmas-time, things around Cuautitlan Izcalli get a little more festive. Welcome to piñata heaven, where thousands of papier-mache donkeys are itching for a jingle-bell beatdown.
No flower says Christmas like the poinsettia, but do you ever wonder where the beautiful perennial we call the 'Christmas Plant' got its start? With the Christmas season here, and red floral displays everywhere, you may like to know the origin of this very intriguing plant.
On December 6, the Biden administration announced that all air travelers, regardless of citizenship or vaccination status, are required to show a negative, pre-departure Covid-19 test taken the day before they board their flight to the US. What does this mean for travelers returning back to the U.S. from Mexico?
Rich in tradition, a Mexican Christmas is filled with joy and wonder. In other countries, the 12 Days of Christmas are celebrated, but in Mexico, the holiday season begins December 1st and is joyously extended through February 2nd - 40 days after the birth of Jesus.
Vicente Fernández, the iconic Mexican singer, actor and film producer whose mighty baritone voice helped elevate Mariachi music to an art form, died early Sunday morning at a hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico. He was 81 years old. Fernández recorded more than 50 albums, sold more than 50 million records and appeared in more than 30 films.
Mexico’s Agriculture Department has reached an agreement with U.S. authorities on a working plan to allow avocados from Jalisco to be exported to the United States as early as April 2022. For almost 25 years, only avocados from one western Mexico state, Michoacán, have been allowed to enter the U.S.
An illegal fireworks shop blew up in Santiago Tenango, Puebla killing two children and four adults and injuring an undetermined number of people, authorities said Tuesday. Ana Lucia Hill, the health secretary for the state of Puebla, said the blast occurred late Monday, and the force of the explosion turned brick walls into heaps of rubble.
Mexican officials announced on Tuesday that they have reversed their previous position against giving coronavirus booster shots and are studying a plan to administer third doses to people over age 60. The government also long resisted vaccinating minors, but recently relented and began administering shots to youths between 15 and 17 years old.
New research by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences suggests that effective wound healing may be aided by replicating a crucial component of our blood. This study explores extracting platelet-rich plasma from the blood of a patient with a complex skin wound and manipulating it through 3D printing to form an implant for tissue repair.
